San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-12
LATEST TELEGRAPH NEWS
From all Parts OF the Globe, Con-
densed and Boiled Down.

All dead-head passes will be taken up
March 80. or be null and void.
Boodler O'Neil gets n years In Sing
Sing.
The senatorial deadlock In West Vir-
ginia legislature continues.
The Mohammedsns will celebrate the
queens jubilee in their Losques.
Northumberland miners, l.6OO, are
asking aid.
France adopts an income tax measure.
Irish landlords, whose tenants are In
the campaign, accept the 50 per cent re-
duction.
The Imperial bank, OF Berlin, places
on the BOurse treasury certificates to the
value Of 10000, 00O marks.
Six hundred Alsatians, who were Or
dered to join the German reserves, have
crossed the frontiers into France.
Galveston Is moving quietly 10 the
matter OF medical college at the Island
city, as q university adjunct.
Mrs. Henry Wood, novelist, is dead In
London. Also, Chas. VIM. Fitzgerald,
duke OF Leinster.
Miss Barton, of the red crOss relief, re-
ports much suffering in Texas. Report
not quite ready for publication.
The dental bill before the legislature
will meet the wishes OF the capable
members of the dental profession.
Freight Agent Allen, Of the New York
and Northern railway, refuses to take
back the strikers who apply for work.
FL Paso Is infested with a gang of
burglars to such an extent that vigilsDts
are talked OF.
An iIoendiary attempt to burn the city
Of Jefferson, Thursday night. Ii did not
| succeed.
The motion to strike out the enacting
clouse OF the school bill In the Texas
house failed 81 to 81.
The French battaliOns. In Algeria, are
embsrking for France. Native Algerine
troops will take their places.
Relief, by remission Of taxes, to the
Sabine Pass sufferers is recommended by
the house committee on state affairs.
The subjugation by the car of all the
Christian provinces in eastern Europe Is
the next Russian programme.
The new senate rule In the state leg
islature counts all members ot voting
yea on the negative side. Silence does
not give consent In this case.
uc NOEtu duu EHst river anu ElNtT
front engineers refuse to strike in obedi-
ence to orders from District Assembly
| 40, K. OF l..
The Spanish minister of the Interior
| denies that France has interfered with
the Spanish border in Morocco. Says
France always respects Spanish rights.
A fire on the Old Colony steamer from
New York to Newport caused sPanic,
but was extinguished without serious
loss.
President Cleveland says he has or
dered Manning to obey the law concern
ing the issue Of $l.00 and $200 United
States notes and issue the same without
delay.
A steamer of the National line broke
her propeller at sea and was spoken 700
miles from English coast under sail, re-
turning,
There are 1000 German officers who
will not accept retirement to which they
are entitled, but will continue In the
service until the war excitement ends.
A visitor at the Theatre Comique,
Minneapolis, fell over the railing OF one
OF the upper procenium boxes, and
striking on his head upon the stage
broke his neck.
The Mount Bridges, Ontario, saloon
keepers raid the clergy who are crusad-
ing for temperance, and a riot ensues.
Several shots were fired, but no one hit.
The Maumee river at Fort Wayne is on
bender, and families in the lower part
Of the city are moving into the second
stories.
An Ohio Quaker, looking up location
for colony OF his people, was robbed in
Atlanta OF $25,OO0 money and two certi-
| fed checks.
Warrants have been served on the
ROsser faction Of the White Rosser ven
delta. All under arrest except Willie
Rosser who fired the first shot and did
the most killing.
Otto White, Of New York, enraged at
| the will Of his father leaving all his
effects to the second wife, killed her
domestic and wounded her In the face.
He Is still at large.
A collision between the steamer
Waterbury and schooner In Long
Island Sound, played smash with the
port side of the cabins and called her
sleeping passengers on deck In alarm.
Damage nominal; five hurt.
The French foreign minister refuses
Boulanger's agent passport to ST. Pc
tersburg with q private letter to the
war department. The minister insists
that the letter pass through the regular
diplomatic channels. Boulanger Is furi-
Gus.
The giving way Of a bridge on the
Cleveland and Pittsburg road south Of
Cleveland, gave a passing railway train
a close call. No one was injured. but
the locomotive, baggage and express
cars were ditched, and the forward
trucks Of the passenger coach hung over
the abyss and dropped into the river.
While the Toronto, Canada, express
was running at high rate of speed
down grade near lvanhorst, the side bar
Of the engine broke and went wheeling
round with terrific velocity. A moment
later the bar on the other side broke and
derailed the engine. The engineer cut
the air brake coupling and stopped the
train. No one hurt.
All southern Michigan is afoat. High
waters, doing immense damage and
threatening more, prevail at Detroit,
Lyons, Three Rivers, jackson and many
other cities. Low lands are submerged,
miles Of streets, street car tracks and
| railway tracks are under water and the
| extent Of the damage cannot be APP
| proximsted. The result depends en-
tirely upon the breaking or holding OF
the Ice gorges.